spain

You can see what conservative thinkers are making of the Spain issue. I haven't been following the news much, so I'm not sure where most of the media is at, but I'd like to look at the analysis of Spain and make some comments. After the bombing, but before the election, many believed that the bombing would shore up supportin Spain, and even throughout Europe, for the US and our various ventures abroad. The reasoning was that just as we got all tough after 9/11, the Spanish people would recognize the need to take the fight to Iraq, or whatever. Either this was a preposterious idea and Al Queda operatives understand European and Spanish politics better than we do, or perhaps that is just what Al Queda operatives wanted. From the first link in this post: Hussein Massawi, former leader of Hezbollah, summed it up very pithily: 'We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.' This may not be true of everyone aligned with Al Queda, I imagine that the organization is quickly becoming useful to many people with more practical goals, but represents the perspective of the most radical, the ones that organize events like 9/11 and 3/11. THis is why I believe Osama LOVES GW Bush and the war in Iraq. I think OBL wants GWB to win the election- and may do something to make that happen. Isn't it possibe, then, that Al Queda was trying to influence the election in the exact opposite way than they ultimately may have? I have more to say about this line of thinking, but I gotta go. I miss you all.